Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Inode question | From | Dave Kleikamp <> | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:36:23 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 17:57, sankarshana rao wrote: > Guys, > Thx for the inputs...I got it with path_lookup.... > > Can I pass the inode pointer back to the user space???
You shouldn't do that.
> I have a scenario in which I have to create multiple > folders on the harddisk. The number of folders can be > in hundreds. Instead of parsing the path name > everytime I need to create a folder (that's what > sys_mkdir does??? ), I was thinking if I have the > inode* of the parent folder, I can avoid this parsing > and directly create a subfolder under the parent > folder...
Couldn't the program chdir to the parent directory and create the folders with a relative pathname? -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center
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